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From the left: MCpl (Retired) Harold Davies, Malahat Legion; Sgt (Ret’d) Jim MacMillanMurphy, Sidney Legion; Sgt Shawn Gaudet, Esquimalt Legion; and CWO Dwight Grieve, Malahat Legion with Fisher, Jim MacMillan-Murphy’s PTSD service dog.

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God’s Acre vigil remembers lives lost through suicide Peter Mallett Staff Writer Military veterans and family members gathered Sunday Sept.

27 for a sombre ceremony to remember the lives of fallen soldiers who have died by suicide.

Victoria’s fourth annual Candlelight Service in Memory of Soldiers of Suicide (SOS) was held at God’s Acre Cemetery.

SOS honours soldiers, sailors, and aviators who chose to end their lives due to mental health issues related to their service.

The event is normally held in four cities across Canada but due to COVID-19 precautions events in Ottawa, Montreal, and Thunder Bay were cancelled. The event in Victoria attracted the maximum allowed capacity of 50 people.

Locally, SOS is organized by Sgt (Retired) Jim MacMillan-Murphy

MCpl James “Bobby” Saulnier Nov. 13, 2011 (Age 31) Hometown: Truro, NS EME Weapon’s Tech

with Megan Willett Hiltz, a registered nurse from Victoria.

MacMillan-Murphy served with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Cyprus and the Golan Heights. As emcee of the event, he told those attending the event isn’t just to remember the names of the fallen but to uplift their surviving family members, loved ones, and friends.

“The primary purpose of this event is to provide moral support to our SOS families and raise awareness about the respect and pride we have for all of our Canadian military members,” said MacMillan-Murphy. “At the same time, we hope to change the taboo surrounding suicide in our military, and more often then not when someone loses their battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).”

The first SOS ceremony was

Bdrc Stéphane Legendre Nov. 22, 2009 (Age 35) Hometown: Québec, QC Régiment Royal de l’Artillerie Canadienne

held in 2013 in Ottawa when the loved ones of 21 suicide victims gave permission to SOS to share the names in a role call to conclude the ceremony.

The size of the role call has more than doubled. At God’s Acre, Willett Hiltz read aloud the names of 54 military members before lighting a candle in their memory.

MacMillan-Murphy served in multiple Canadian peacekeeping missions overseas and has been diagnosed with PTSD. He confessed to those in attendance that he has attempted suicide on multiple occasions.

“Do I still get destructive thoughts, regretfully yes, and as recently as a week-and-a-half ago,” said MacMillan-Murphy. “But what took me out of the darkness was a text from a friend and former military member Debbi

Cpl Stuart Langridge March 15, 2008 (Age 28) Hometown: Richmond, BC Lord Strathcona’s Horse Royal Canadians

Ferguson asking me, ‘Are you okay Bell was an Intelligence Officer Battle Buddy?’ The text helped with 1 Canadian Air Division in ground me and take me out of the Winnipeg who took his life in darkness and back to the present.” 2019.

Ferguson, a retired S1, spoke at After Willett Hiltz completed the event and is the creator of the role call, she read her poem Battle Buddy Challenge Coins, Commitment to Remember. that offers hope and support to veterans going through difficult times.

Those gathered at Esquimalt Veterans Commitment to Remember Cemetery also

By Megan Willett Hiltz included the parents of Cpl Stuart They were young, as we were young, Langridge, Sheila They served, and Shaun Fynes.

Giving freely of themselves.

Cpl Langridge died To them, we pledge, by suicide at CFB Amid the winds of time, Edmonton in 2008.

Also attending To carry their torch and never forget. were the wife and We will remember them daughter of MWO TOGETHER: Colin Bell, Natasha We will remember them. and Patricia Bell.

Pte Thomas Welch May 8, 2004 (Age 22) Hometown: Thunder Bay, ON Royal Canadian Regiment

Sdt Frédéric Couture Nov. 14, 2007 (Age 22) Hometown: Roxton Pond, QC Royal 22e Régiment

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Below: Sub-Lieutenant Phil Hopkins, a Bridge Watchkeeper, plays the bagpipes at the Battle of Britain commemoration ceremony.

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What gets me fuming?

SLt M.X. Déry Contributor For more than a week, an Air Quality Health Advisory warning kept my family trapped indoors.

The cause, multiple wildfires burning across the West Coast of Canada and the U.S. While adults were advised to avoid strenuous activities, children and the elderly were told to stay in when possible.

Finally on the weekend, the skies cleared and I could take my young son for a walk; however, even though the smoke from the fires had dissipated, vape and

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cigarette smokers were fogging up Saxe Point Park.

After unfastening my threeyear-old from his car seat, I spotted two men in suits smoking in the parking lot as a taxi pulled up to collect them.

Then, as we headed towards the path, a huge puff of white smoke clouded the view. A vaper, standing next to his truck, the door wide open as if to say “I’m in my vehicle,” was taking long drags before spewing the smoke from his lips.

We made our way along the path to the open field where my son bolted off to expend

some pent up energy. I sat on a nearby bench, patting the spot beside me for him to come gaze across the expansive Salish Sea. Surrounding the bench on the concrete pad were dozens of cigarette butts. I shook my head as the long grass surrounding us was dry and sun-bleached from the lack of shade and rain.

Not only was it litter, it was a sad reminder of the ignorance of people. So far in 2020, there have been 8,000 blazes in North America, and the current west coast blazes are not slowing down.

Annoyed, I took my son’s hand

and together we meandered down the path. Before long I smelled that pungent marijuana smell. Numerous people dotted along the water’s edge were blazing up as the fall sun sank behind the ocean landscape.

What was to be a father-son adventure in nature was turning into another air quality issue.

As we headed back to the parking lot we were assaulted with yet another puff of smoke from a couple having a post-meal vape.

Dog walkers, joggers, parents with strollers, and elderly couples all use this park for outdoor enjoyment, but it seemed to me

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The final straw was two women seated just outside the wooded area with a 20lb propane tank fuelling a portable heater. There is no limit to people’s stupidity, I thought.

As I slid my son back into his car seat, the smell of marijuana had overtaken the salty sea air.

I fear that nothing will ever stop people from smoking in parks; not the laws, not fire safety, not simple courtesy and not common sense.

Dog walkers, joggers, parents with strollers, and elderly couples all use this park for outdoor enjoyment, but it seemed to me such a juxtaposition between smokers and those pursuing a healthy lifestyle, all happening in such a pristine environment.

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Canadian Coast Guard Rescue Specialist joins navy operation Peter Mallett Staff Writer High winds laced with rain and a churning sea did not faze Wesley Scott as he and HMCS Whitehorse crew members raced in a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) to a sailboat in distress.

The Canadian Coast Guard Rescue Specialist was embarked in the Kingston-class vessel for its search and rescue deployment off Vancouver Island over the summer.

“The heavy winds and sea state, the near total darkness, the erratic movements of the sailboat, and the inability to board the boat made this one of the more dangerous

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search and rescue operations I have been involved with,” said LCdr Jeff Chura, Whitehorse captain.

The sailboat had lost its steering and propulsion and was violently thrashing from side to side in the stormy seas with waves topping three metres. A desperate mayday call went out and was answered by Whitehorse.

Upon arrival to the sailboat, Scott administered medical aid to the sea-sickened occupants through the advice of Whitehorse’s Physician Assistant, SLt Joshua Wilson who he communicated with via radio.

Sea conditions were too dangerous to remove the occupants,

so they and their two dogs remained on the boat as it was towed by the RHIB to Winter Harbour.

“This was one of the most difficult rescues I have performed in my career with the Coast Guard,” said Scott.

“I was concerned about someone falling into the Canadian Coast Guard Rescue Specialist Wesley Scott adminiswater as it would have been ters medical assistance to S3 Dunbar during a first aid exercise. a nightmare to try and find

Photos by S3 Vandal/HMCS Whitehorse them.”

He sailed with the Canadian Coast Guard. After three “This program between the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel for a month – between years on the job, it was his first Coast Guard and navy is a great Aug. 3 to Sept. 10 – in a joint experience in a Royal Canadian example of cooperation, and promission between the Joint Rescue Navy vessel. He remarked it was vides a valuable service to remote coastal communities,” said LCdr Coordination Centre and the “enjoyable and interesting.”

The relationship Chura. between the navy and A typical shift rotation for Scott the Coast Guard is is 28 days on, 28 days off. That Scott (left) and members of HMCS Whitehorse, S3 Dunbar, a long standing one. means long stretches away from S1 Leclair, and Lt(N) Lipinski, return to the ship in a Rigid Hull The Canadian Armed home, but the job rewards outInflatable Boat following a first aid exercise.

Forces works with weigh the challenges, he says. search and rescue He is trained on first aid procepartners at the federal, dures, medical response, mass casuprovincial, and munic- alty events, operation of a Rigid ipal levels to improve Hulled Inflatable Boat, and high collective search and angle rescues, or as Scott puts rescue efforts, and it, “Just about anything else that promote education could happen on the water.” and training to preWhile on board Whitehorse, he vent incidents from worked closely with the Physician occurring.

Assistant, and helped the crew Twice a year, a war- with a shoreline cleanup of Kitasu ship from Maritime Bay, north of Bella Bella, where Forces Pacific embarks they removed 1,000 lbs of derelict a Coast Guard search fishing gear from the beach. and rescue specialist “The ship’s command was very when deployed along accommodating to my requests the coast to provide and were exceptionally competent aid to any marine in their roles running Whitehorse,” issues. In the event of said Scott. “The crew have been an emergency, it is the very welcoming to this SAR prorescue specialists’ job gram and all the training we have to provide emergency completed will help me prepare search and rescue for future events throughout my expertise. career.”

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Scott Stewart, host of fishing show Reelistic Outdoors, displays a Lake Trout he caught in June 2018 on Cunningham Lake, B.C. Stewart, a lifelong fisherman and conservationist, says he tries to return each fish he catches safely back to the water.

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Veteran ‘Reelistic’ about new fishing show Peter Mallett Staff Writer Unlike the tall tales of most fishermen, LS (Retired) Scott Stewart really has caught a big fish.

That’s because the former Royal Canadian Navy sailor has turned his life-long love of fishing into a television show called Reelistic Outdoors.

“I always knew I would host a fishing show,” says Stewart. “When I was young, I used to watch the Red Fisher Show every weekend. I realized from that point I wanted to host a show.”

His fishing-themed show debuted on specialty cable channels the Sportsman Channel and World Fishing Network in late September.

“It’s a great feeling to know my show is now going to be seen by a much wider audience.”

Six previous seasons of Reelistic

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Outdoors have aired on Shaw Cable local community television channels.

The show, he says, has been nearly half a century in the making.

His father James Stewart, who also served in the navy, took Stewart on his first fishing trip in the 1970s in Cambridge, ON. Stewart says he was “hooked” from then on.

“My father taught me to fish and I just excelled from there. I loved how beautiful fish were, the fight you get from them while reeling them in, and learning to use the correct gear to catch them.”

He has already filmed the first 13 episodes of this 26-epidsode season.

He kicks it off by taking viewers on a helicopter trip to Hook Lake, nestled in B.C.’s Rocky Mountains.

He has also filmed episodes on location in Saskatchewan and the Yukon and plans to visit the Northwest

Territories later in the season.

“Throughout the season I will fish from a helicopter, a jet boat, an ocean boat, and in one episode I build a wagon and pull my boat five kilometres to the destination. I do fly fishing, jigging, deep water ocean fishing, and freshwater fishing and I will even head to the far north to do some ice fishing later this autumn.”

Stewart, 55, lives near Prince George, B.C. with his wife and daughter. He works as a Telecommunications Analyst with health care provider Northern Health. When he isn’t working, he prepares his show and fishes the streams and rivers nearby.

It is a one-person show with Stewart writing each script, playing host, directing, filming

My father taught me to fish and I just excelled from there. I loved how beautiful fish were, the fight you get from them while reeling them in, and learning to use the correct gear to catch them.”

with many cameras, and editing.

“When I am filming, I try to treat the camera as if it were an individual viewer sitting with me on the boat.

I also try to make the focus just as much about the unique process of getting to each location, instead of being all in your face and 100 per cent focused on fishing techniques.”

Previous episodes of Reelistic Outdoors can be viewed on Stewart’s Facebook page, which has over 25,000 followers since it launched seven years ago.

Stewart displays a Pacific Snapper he reeled in during a fishing trip near Prince Rupert, B.C. Photo by Scottie Martin, CEO Canadian Fishing Network

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‘golden’ opportunity at run clinic Peter Mallett Staff Writer Two elite distance runners with ties to Canada’s Olympic program will put their coaching skills to work in an upcoming clinic for runners at the base.

Erin Teschuk and Mariah Kelly will provide instruction in running performance and training techniques to participants of all experience levels in four hour-long clinics. They begin Wednesday evenings Oct. 28 and run weekly until Nov. 18 at various locations across Victoria.

“I am incredibly excited to work with military members for this run clinic,” said Teschuk.

“That’s because I know they embody a lot of the qualities that elite athletes possess - mental toughness, great work ethic, and the ability to set high goals and work towards those goals daily.”

The program is one of the many offered by Personnel Support Programs Recreation department.

Both Kelly and Teschuk were working towards being chosen to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in July.

However, their Olympic dreams were scuttled as the Games were postponed until next summer due to the global pandemic.

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“Mariah and I both know the importance of being adaptable and that everyone has different strengths and weaknesses and

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Both athletes are members of local running club Vic City Elite, which is coached

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4 You, where they provide online and in-person coaching programs to athletes of all levels.

Teschuk is a long-distance runner from Winnipeg. She was a member of Canada’s 2016 Olympic team and specializes in the Steeplechase, 3,000m, 1500m, and five-kilometre races.

She represented Canada at the 2015 Pan American Games and competed in the International Amateur Athletics Association (IAAF) World Championships that same year.

The two-time Canadian track and field champion is also a professional runner.

Kelly, 29, is a professional middle-distance runner originally from Niagara Falls. She is currently ranked 57th in the world in the women’s 1500m event.

After graduating with a degree in Health Science in 2015, and becoming a standout on the Baylor University track, Kelly signed a professional contract with New Balance in 2017.

She won a bronze medal at the Canadian World Trials in the women’s 1500m. That put her in the running to join Canada’s World Indoor team.

She was also put on the runners up selection list for this year’s Olympic Games.

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From left to right: Commander (Cdr) Cameron Miller, incoming Commanding Officer of HMCS Malahat; Captain(N) Patrick Montgomery, Naval Reserve’s West Region Captain; and Cdr Gregory Walker, outgoing Commanding Officer, sign the formal Change of Command certificates during the Change of Command Ceremony at HMCS Malahat on Sept. 19.

HMCS Malahat Change of Command SLt Donald Den HMCS Malahat PAO On an overcast Saturday afternoon, selected members of the ship’s company of HMCS Malahat, as well as a small number of immediate family and guests, gathered two metres apart on the drill deck for the Change of Command Ceremony between outgoing Commanding Officer, Commander Gregory Walker and the incoming Commanding Officer, Commander Cameron Miller.

The Sept. 19 ceremony was presided over by Special Assistant to the Direct General – Naval Strategic Readiness, Capt(N) Patrick Montgomery.

Accompanying Capt(N) Montgomery was Malahat’s new Honorary Capt(N), Her Honour, Janet Austin, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

This was an unusual change of command for Malahat with COVID-19 health and safety regulations in place. Absent was the traditional Honour Guard, parade, and larger crowds, as only a chosen few members of the ship’s company and family members could attend.

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The sentiment was echoed wife, and Cdr Miller presented To conclude his acceptance of He acknowledged the “strange by LGov Janet Austin in her Cdr Walker a hand-made paddle, the new role and responsibility and adverse times” the Naval remarks. along with a nautical telescope – as Malahat’s commanding offiReserve and all of the Canadian “The future of the Forces will gifted on behalf LGov Austin and cer, Cdr Miller turned to the Armed Forces have found them- reflect the rich diversity of gen- Malahat’s ship’s company.

Reviewing Officer, saluted, and selves in now. He said it has been der, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual Traditionally, the change of proudly proclaimed, “Captain an amazing two years, adding “it orientation, and ability that com- command would conclude with Montgomery, I have the watch.” has been a joy to come to work and see the dedication and professionalism from each and every one of our ship’s company.”

Replacing Cdr Walker is Cdr Miller, who, in addition to having a naval career dating back to the 1980s as a naval communicator, is also the Detachment Commander for the RCMP in the City of Nanaimo.

In his incoming speech, he thanked Cdr Walker departs in a Rigid-Hull Inflatable Boat as part of the Cheer Ship “Rowing Ashore” tradition at the navy for the the end of the change of command ceremony.

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CPO2 Kranz is awarded the Special Service Medal (SSM) Expedition for Operation Poseidon Cutlass 17-1 in HMCS Ottawa.

MS Pillar is awarded the SSM Expedition for Operation Projection in HMCS Winnipeg.

PO2 Buckoll is awarded the SSM Expedition for Operation Projection in HMCS Winnipeg.

PO2 Haines is promoted to his current rank.

PO2 Johnson is awarded the Canadian Forces’ Decoration for 12 years of good conduct.

PO2 Johnson is promoted to his current rank.

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S2 Parker is awarded the SSM Expedition for Operation Projection in HMCS Vancouver.

S1 Vivian is awarded the SSM Expedition for Operation Projection in HMCS Calgary.

HMCS Saskatoon Change of Command Above: Lieutenant Commander Sean Kelly (right), outgoing Commanding Officer; Cdr Lawrence Moraal (center), reviewing officer; and Lieutenant Commander Nadia Shields, incoming Commanding Officer, sign the change of command certificates.

Top right: LCdr Shields addresses the group gathered on the ship.

Bottom right: LCdr Kelly addresses leadership, friends, family, and crew before departing as HMCS Saskatoon’s captain.

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